^ ^ ^ ^ a l m Beach County, FL, well-known as the winter home of ^ ^ V s o m e of our country's wealthiest families, is p o m e t i m e s called the "golf capital of the world." But there is I a lesser-known side to this county of 1.3 million residents, in which 15 percent of the children live in poverty and nearly 19 percent of all residents are uninsured. Because many Palm Beach Countians are...

Political Districting Problem is one of the critical issues in political elections, it can be expressed as: how to partition a state into reasonable districts for parliament election and presidential election. In this paper, the political districting problem for parliament election is modelled as a doubly weighted graph partition problem and it is formulated into quadratic programming model. Us...

The authors examine e-tutor perceptions of the star rural area e-learning project, service learning. The study employed 125 volunteer e-tutors twice per week for one semester. A survey found that e-tutors had the most positive perceptions towards teaching preparation. The results showed that only e-tutors from different grades reflected various perceptions of the star rural area e-learning proj...

OBJECTIVE To develop and test a statistical model which correctly predicts the approval of outpatient referrals when reviewed by a specialty service based on nine discriminating variables. DESIGN Retrospective cross-sectional study. SETTING Large public county hospital system in a southern US city. PARTICIPANTS Written documents and associated data from 500 random adult referrals made by ...

BACKGROUND The self-consciousness and practicality of preferentially prescribed essential medicines (EMs) are not high enough in county hospitals. The purposes of this study were to use the information-motivation-behavioral skills (IMB) model to identify the predictors of essential medicines prescribing behavior (EMPB) among doctors and to examine the association between demographic variables, ...

This is to report the problems encountered in and the results of a survey which was conducted in a rural mountain county. Calaveras County lies on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains between 1500 ft. and 4000 ft. elevation, and is almost 125 miles directly east of San Francisco. The principal means of livelihood are mining, timber, cattle raising, and cement manufacture. The county ha...

Shown a t the annual Representat ives Dinner of the Westchester chapter , C iv i l Serv ice Employees Associat ion, are , from left: G a b r i e l J . C o r a b e e , Westchester chapter president; R ichard P. Schultz, past president of the W e s t c h e s t e r chapter ; Joseph F. Feily, president of the C iv i l Serv ic Employees Assoc iat ion; ond M a r g a r e t W . Trout, past president of...

County Government Information Portal Using ArcIMS Track: State and Local Government Author(s): Michael Shean, Eric Weller Public access to county government information has traditionally required citizens to visit multiple locations. This process can often be time consuming for both the public and government staff, who must respond to their inquiries. However, Internet portals are now being suc...

a GEST Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD 21228, USA b NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Mail Code 614.4, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA c City College of New York — CUNY, 138 and Convent Ave., New York, NY 10031, USA d JCET Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD, 21228, USA e Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, 305-0052 Ibaraki, Japan f Earth Obse...

These recommendations are based on a study of various documents, as cited, meetings with Miami-Dade County staff and elected officials on May 13 and 14, 2004, with a followup visit and empirical testing on June 3, and telephone and E-mail contact with ES&S. Some of the recommendations here are already in various stages of implementation by Miami-Dade County, while others may prove to be more di...